Its contents no doubt explain why it has not yet been made public. Contrary to the very critical positions of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who was unfavorable to “shooting rooms”, the report on addiction treatment centers (HSA), their current name, commissioned by the government for inspection in spring, clearly argues in its favor. In the document of some sixty pages –excluding the annexes– that the world could consult, the inspectors of social affairs (IGAS) and administration (IGA), summon “registration in common law” These devices, still in an experimental state, “in order to provide, in the law, for the possibility of opening new spaces for supervised consumption”.
This evaluation, commissioned by the Ministers of Health and the Interior, was to help the government decide on the future of these devices, which remain the subject of constant controversy and suffer from a “Marked lack of social acceptability on the part of city residents who live near the premises”we read in the missionary letter. They “sometimes it can be perceived by certain actors”outside the circles health, “more like a support for consumption than [comme] the possibility offered to consumers to access a care itinerary”. The ministers called for inspections to evaluate the “relevance” of these rooms – France has two, one in Paris and another in Strasbourg – both in terms of health and of public order. Before a new scientific evaluation that must be carried out before the end of the experiment (scheduled for 1Ahem December 2025).
After listening to interested parties, including police services and prosecutors, the mission recommends “bring the current experiment to its conclusion.” “The closure [des] two HSAs would degrade public peace, endanger users with very precarious living conditions and unnecessarily mobilize police forces to manage consumption in public spaces, the speakers emphasize ; It would come at the wrong time, in a context of greater availability of narcotics, while addiction professionals warn of “the rising tide.”. »
Politically, the issue, championed during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term by former Health Minister Olivier Véran, has lost all voice. “Public risk reduction policy, of which addiction treatment centers are an integral part, must have unequivocal support at all levels”the inspectors write.
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